Welcome¶
I am an associate professor in the Department of Statistics at UC Berkeley, and a Faculty Scientist at the Data Science and Technology Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. I am the faculty director for the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS), and co-director for the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment (DSE). I co-founded, and continue to advise, the International Interactive Computing Collaboration - 2i2c.
My research interests were shaped by years of working on a number of applied problems in physics, mathematics, neuroscience and earth science. Today, I focus on building open, reproducible science, and scientific uses of AI for problems in earth and the environment, as well as healthcare.
I am convinced that we need better tools for scientific computing, and that our efforts to build them based on the Python language can make a significant difference to how research is conducted and disseminated. I created the IPython project while a graduate student in 2001, which has now evolved into the large and collaborative Project Jupyter, where a talented team does all the hard work. I am an active member of the community that creates freely available scientific computing tools around the Scientific Python stack.
News¶
- March 2013
- I was awarded the 2012 Award for the Advancement of Free Software for the creation of IPython and my contributions to the Open Source Scientific Python ecosystem. UC Berkeley also put out a more detailed release.
Photo note: the mountains
The picture at the top is Colorado’s incredible Continental Divide, specifically the Indian Peaks range, shot from Brainard Lake during a beautiful fall day in 2004. On the descent from that hike I spotted a great-looking little couloir that provided for a very nice alpine day one week later. Having that terrain 45 minutes from home is one thing (among many) that makes the Colorado Front Range the most amazing place to live I’ve known.
Contact
Email: fernando.perez-AT-berkeley.edu
Unfortunately I receive far more email than I can manage; I am perennially far behind. For urgent matters that absoultely require a reply, please cc fperez.support, who will try to assist.
Office: Evans Hall 419
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Fernando Pérez
Statistics Department
367 Evans Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-3860